The clarion., 1887-10-12
WHOM EVERYBODY KNOWS.

What the Newspapers Say of Persons
Who Are More Less Famous.
The crazy King Otto, of Bavaria,
chiefly amuses himself by looking at Illus
trated papers, peeling potatoes and max
ing cigarettes.
The mother of W. c. Quantrell, the
noted guerrilla, still lives at Canal Dover,
o., and firmly believes her son is still liv-
ing and will one day return home.
Mrs. Sheridan was regarded as one of
the handsomest women seen at the Phil
adelphia celebration. Her eyes are large,
brown and beautiful, and she has a
special fancy for brown costumes. which
are an admirable match for those attract
i've eyes.
Before leaving Kissingen Prince Bis
marck always ascertains his weight, and
he was this year gratified to find that it
had remained the same as last summer,
207 pounds. Before Bismarck intrusted
himself to DIR. Schweninger he weighed
forty pounds more.
j. I. Trowbridge, the author, has
grown rich in an easy and pleasant way.
lie Is one of the principal stockholders in
the company which owns all the availa-
bic land or cottages at Kennebecport, Me,
The rapid rise in the price of land at that
resort has made the stockholders wealthy.
Commander-in-Chief Fairchild. of the
Grand Army of the Republic. has stopped
smoking, after having been addicted to
the habit from young manhood. He
abandoned the fragrant weed lust seven
weeks ago, after he had been informed
nv Spv-pTal nj hot
use accounted for badly inflamed tonsils.
which seriously troubled him. He has
noted a great improvement in the condi-
ton of his throat, and says, in voice in
which there Is slight tinge of regret,
that he has undoubtedly smoked his last
cigar.
President Carter, of Williams college.
the other day gave the members of the
sophomore class the views of the trustees
on cane rushing and hazing. He in
formed them that one of the conditions
upon which they would be allowed to re-
main in the baseball league was that all
cane rushing and interference with the
freshmen must be given up. He told the
class frankly that if man were caught
in this business he would suffer severely,
and he hoped that the ''canebrakes and
bullrushes on the banks of the Hoosac
river were cleared away" The presi-
dent also gave the freshmen class a talk
on smoking and drinking.
When Gen. John c. Fremont walked
into the rooms of the Pacific railroad
commission the commissioners stood uu
and greeted him heartily, and the law
yers, one after another, We're introduced
fD md Ii, l. l.
hand. People and the newspapers have
talked lately about the general being old
and feeble. Old, he is; but feeble--not
at all. He carries his IA years with
step as springy and a form as straight as
they were when he carved a pathway
over the Rocky mountains to the new Ell
Dorado forty years ago. His snowy white
hair and whiskers are as neatly kept as
were his blonde locks in the days when he
stole the heart of pretty Jessie Benton, in
spite of her fathers protests. Hei pass
ing his autumn days quietly down at
Point Pleasant, on the New Jersey coast,
and has gathered about him there the
materials for history of his life that,
written by himself and his charming
wife, will doubtless be vivid pen pict-
ture of some of the most interesting
events of the last half century of this
country's history.
Signor Tancredi de Savoiroux, the
member of the Italian commercial expe-
dItion whose liberation from the clutches
of the Abyssinian leader, Ras Alula, has
lately been forced, did not have a par
ticularly comfortable time during his i'm
prisonment. For seven months of the
ten during which he was a captive his
feet were so chained together that he
could not take a single STEP He was
also chained by the arm to the arm of an
Abyssinian soldier, the latter being
changed every week. He had to sleep ON
the bare earth-to sleep, let it be under
stood, only when it pleased his compan-
ion to repose. In Ike manner he had to
sit or stand or move when it suited the
sweet will of the Abyssinian soldier. The
few who saw him in the midst of his suf-
ferings testify to his uncomplaining Sc
renity. Only once did he lose his pa
tience-and it is Salembeni who wrote it
to Savoiroux's mother-and that was
when, writes Salimbeni: Mai Piano
and myself, wearied out with our suffer-
ings, discussed the commission of sui
eide. Then Savoiroux grew angry, and
so strongly dissuaded us from that vile
thing, as he called it, that we never
spoke of it again.
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